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Stranded Migrants Need Safe And Dignified Return – UN Migrant Workers Committee
Friday, 2 October 2020, 9:11 am | OHCHR
The UN Committee on Migrant Workers has today called on governments to take immediate action to address the inhumane conditions of migrant workers who are stranded in detention camps and ensure they can have an orderly, safe and dignified return to ... More >>
Urgent Debate On Situation Of Human Rights In Belarus: Statement By UN High Commissioner
Saturday, 19 September 2020, 7:08 am | OHCHR
45th session of the Human Rights Council. Urgent debate on the situation of human rights in Belarus. Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Madam President, Your Excellencies, The Council’s consideration of the ... More >>
Execution Of Iran Athlete Sends Deeply Disturbing Message To Protesters, Say UN Experts
Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 7:26 am | OHCHR
UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the summary execution of champion wrestler Navid Afkari in Iran, raising alarm at the latest execution in a series of death penalty sentences handed down in the context of protests in 2018 and 2019. ... More >>
Bachelet's Global Update To The UN Human Rights Council 45th Session
Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 7:22 am | OHCHR
Distinguished President, Excellencies, Colleagues and Friends, In a context of sharply escalating suffering and turmoil across the world, human rights principles, norms and actions offer effective solutions to build stronger resilience to shocks, and ... More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Calls For Independent Investigation Into Poisoning Of Alexei Navalny
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 7:15 am | OHCHR
Welcoming the news that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has emerged from his coma in a Berlin hospital, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday urged the Government of the Russian Federation to carry out, ... More >>
Enforced Disappearances: UN Committee Welcomes Mexico’s Decision On Individual Complaints
Sunday, 6 September 2020, 7:22 am | OHCHR
The unanimous decision by the Mexican Senate to recognize the competence of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to examine individual complaints is a significant step in the country’s human rights development, the Committee said in a statement ... More >>
UN Human Rights Office Highlights Fabricated Information In Relation To Algeria
Sunday, 6 September 2020, 7:21 am | OHCHR
An article published in French , Arabic and English by the Algérie Presse Service (APS) on Tuesday 1 September claimed that a body called “The Geneva Office of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal” (‘le Bureau des Contentieux de l’ONU à Genève’) ... More >>
Belarus: UN Committee Hails Role Of Women In Political Process And Protests
Friday, 4 September 2020, 8:24 am | OHCHR
Reports of violence against women in Belarus, including sexual abuse and rape, received by UN human rights experts, are deeply concerning, the UN women’s rights committee said on Thursday. The Committee also underlined how women voices are not marginal, ... More >>
Enforced Disappearances: UN Committee To Hold Special Online Dialogue With Iraq
Friday, 4 September 2020, 8:04 am | OHCHR
The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) will hold a special public dialogue with Iraq during its upcoming online session to discuss what the country is doing to address the issue of enforced disappearances. Iraq ratified the International ... More >>
Bachelet Welcomes Sudan Peace Deal, Urges Accountability
Wednesday, 2 September 2020, 7:27 am | OHCHR
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has welcomed the signing of a peace deal between the Transitional Government of Sudan and the majority of the country’s armed groups as a major step in ending the suffering and human rights ... More >>
Bachelet Urges Investigation Into Death Threats Against Dr Mukwege
Saturday, 29 August 2020, 7:02 am | OHCHR
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday expressed deep concern over the recent death threats directed at the Congolese human rights defender and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege, and called for swift action to investigate ... More >>
International Day Of The Victims Of Enforced Disappearances, 30 August 2020
Friday, 28 August 2020, 7:34 am | OHCHR
Countries must continue to search for victims of enforced disappearances even during COVID-19 pandemic, UN human rights experts* said today. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Declaration for on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced ... More >>
UN: Accountability For Human Rights Violations During Peaceful Protests Is Key
Friday, 28 August 2020, 7:27 am | OHCHR
Despite promising steps by the current Government of Iraq concerning human rights violations and abuses committed in the context of recent demonstrations, accountability remains elusive, according to a UN report released on Thursday. The report details ... More >>
Governments Must Do More To Support Victims Of Violence
Saturday, 22 August 2020, 7:32 am | OHCHR
UN human rights experts* today expressed alarm at a sharp rise during the COVID-19 pandemic of hatred directed at religious communities, who are often being portrayed as a threat to public safety and national identity. They called on all governments ... More >>
Libya: Bachelet Appoints Independent Fact-Finding Mission Experts
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 8:07 am | OHCHR
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said the deteriorating security situation in Libya and the absence of a functioning judicial system underscored the importance of the work of a team of independent experts to document human rights ... More >>
UN Committee Calls On Bosnia And Herzegovina To Recognise Sexual Violence Survivors’ Rights
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 8:05 am | OHCHR
The UN women’s rights committee has found that survivors of sexual violence in armed conflict have been long neglected in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and has called on the government to take immediate action to provide adequate social and ... More >>
UN High Commissioner For Human Rights On Draft Sexual Intercourse Related Crimes Law In Somalia
Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 8:10 am | OHCHR
“Legislation drafted by parliamentarians in Somalia risks legitimizing child marriage, among other alarming practices, and must be prevented from passing into law. Provisions of the Sexual Intercourse Related Crimes Law constitute serious breaches of international ... More >>
International Day Of World’s Indigenous Peoples: Message From UN High Commissioner For Human Rights
Saturday, 8 August 2020, 7:33 am | OHCHR
COVID-19 is a critical threat to indigenous peoples, at a time when many are also struggling against man-made environmental damage and economic depredation. In almost all the 90 countries where they live in often remote locations, many indigenous communities ... More >>
Yemen: Journalists Under Attack From All Quarters, Says Bachelet
Friday, 7 August 2020, 7:15 am | OHCHR
The UN’s human rights chief said today she is appalled by the high number of human rights violations against journalists across Yemen - including killings, disappearances and death sentences in violation of international human rights law. Since the start ... More >>
Work Of Human Rights Treaty Bodies At Risk, Warn UN Committee Chairs
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 7:04 am | OHCHR
Chairpersons of the 10 UN committees that monitor the implementation of international human right treaties have called on States to properly support their work, warning that the current underfunding is set to affect upcoming review meetings from September ... More >>
